Name: Amarita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Reposado tequila; 22.5 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 15 ml Lime juice; 4 drop Grapefruit bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Amarita
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
³⁄₄ fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
4 drop	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of length of lime peel.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

The name of this bitter bittersweet and sour Margarita riff references amaro (meaning bitter) and the use of an Italian bitter liqueur. Many will want to add 5ml (1 bar spoon) of agave syrup to rebalance this cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2007 by Neyah White in San Francisco, USA.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Amarita contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
18.24% alc./vol. (36.47° proof)
16.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Cassandra Adams

27th September 2025 at 19:46

Found this absolutely delicious (5+), although we used Fee Bros Grapefruit Bitters, and so 4 dashes rather than drops, so perhaps we ended up with a more citrus-forward recipe? We also used smoked salt. Just found this a wonderfully complex and harmonious drink. (Our tequila is Don Fulano, and made it without the agave syrup suggestion.)